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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many intimate questions comprise the study about love that Daniel describes in the narrative?
(a) 39.
(b) 180.
(c) 36.
(d) 42.

2. Where has Daniel's older brother been forced to withdraw temporarily from college in the beginning of the novel?
(a) Harvard.
(b) Yale.
(c) Rutgers.
(d) NYU.

3. The narrator indicates in “Irie: An Etymological History" that to be irie is bo be what?
(a) Solitary.
(b) Between God and the world.
(c) Between heaven and hell.
(d) Exuberant.

4. From what college is the alumnus that Daniel is preparing to interview with in the beginning of the novel?
(a) Yale.
(b) Brown.
(c) Princeton.
(d) Harvard.

5. For how long has Daniel's older brother been forced to withdraw from college in the beginning of the novel?
(a) 2 years.
(b) 1 full year.
(c) 1 semester.
(d) 2 semesters.

Short Answer Questions

1. How old was Daniel when he claims Charlie stopped liking him?

2. Where does Daniel describe the article about the researcher who put two people in a lab and had them ask one another intimate questions?

3. What item of Daniel's does he ask Natasha to carry in her backpack as they walk to her appointment?

4. What is the name of the receptionist that Natasha argues with when she arrives late for her appointment at USCIS?

5. In the study where the researcher put two strangers into a room and had them ask one another intimate questions, how long were the subjects supposed to stare into one another's eyes without speaking?

Short Essay Questions

1. What study from the New York Times does Daniel present to Natasha and why?

2. How would you describe the relationship between Daniel and Charlie?

3. Who is Jeremy Fitzgerald and what is his role in the plot of The Sun is Also a Star?

4. How does Natasha respond to her interaction with Charlie at Daniel's father's store when they first meet?

5. What is the significance of Irene's character in the novel?

6. What is a "multiverse" and why is this discussed in The Sun is Also a Star?

7. What are the relationships like in Daniel's family?

8. What is the significance of the Prologue to The Sun is Also a Star?

9. What are Natasha's feelings about science?

10. What similarities do Daniel and Natasha share?

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